Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Indian, Indio, Indigenous (1992): a horizontal canvas combining collaged map scraps, comic strips, cloth swatches and dripped paint with scrawled phrases.

National Museum of Women in the ArtsDowntown

Remix: The Collection

Now showing21 October 2023 – 16 January 2028$16

The museum-wide collection installation, rejecting chronology for themes like Photo Credit, Seeing Red and Objectified across six continents and six centuries of women artists.

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On now All of October 2026

You walk in and Niki de Saint Phalle's Pregnant Nana is waiting: five feet of painted marble, arms flung over her head, a heart and an asterisk for nipples and a multicoloured target on her belly.

Behind her, NMWA hangs its collection by theme instead of date, in nine groupings across the Great Hall, the mezzanine and the third floor. Seeing Red is built around red, No Shrinking Violet around purple, and Heavyweight around women who worked big. ARTnews's Alex Greenberger found the themes "too vague to have a lasting impact" but the pairings "unforced and frequently illuminating", such as a Sharon Core photograph of a split-open cake hung above a Giovanna Garzoni still life of fruit and shells.

He called the mood "celebratory and light". On until 16 January 2028, Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm. Admission is $16, or $13 for DC residents, over-65s and students, and free for visitors 21 and under. Everyone gets in free on the first Sunday and second Wednesday of each month.

Look for

Niki de Saint Phalle's Pregnant Nana
Look for her at the entrance: a five-foot painted marble figure, hands raised above her head, with a multicoloured target across her belly.
Berenice Abbott's Science (Magnetic)
A 1958 photograph printed as a negative: iron filings scattered above a bar magnet, pulled into the shape of its magnetic field.
Maria and Julian Martinez's blackware jar
A black-on-black jar Maria built from clay found on her pueblo, with the design painted on in slip by Julian.
Meryl McMaster's I Listened as the World Became Silent
The artist photographs herself in fencing gear among butterflies native to Saskatchewan, which in Cree culture stand for the souls of ancestors.
Fede Galizia's cherries in a silver compote
A still life from about 1610: ripe cherries in a silver bowl with crabapples, set against a dramatic dark background, with a butterfly.